Yesterday, Gary Flake, head of Microsoft’s Live Labs, gave me a tour of Photosynth. It is simply the demo of the year. Certainly the coolest thing showed off this week at the Web 2.0 Summit.
Gary gives a great demo.
Behind me there were a couple of Web 2.0 summit attendees and they were whispering to each other “f***ing amazing.” Even better than you can load this on your own computer, get it on the Photosynth site.
I’m going to take the rest of the day off. In fact, I might take all of next week off from my text blog to dedicate time to answering email and to getting caught up on ScobleShow editing tasks.
I have been playing around with this for a while (we were able to download it internally more than a week ago and I see it as not only being cool but having great application outside of just family vaction photo sharing. Think of all the business maps of campus facilities or building layouts that could have photsynth components that allow for seeing and navigating through them. Get to know what a place looks like before you get there.
I will just be happy to post my family vacation pics up though like this.
I have been playing around with this for a while (we were able to download it internally more than a week ago and I see it as not only being cool but having great application outside of just family vaction photo sharing. Think of all the business maps of campus facilities or building layouts that could have photsynth components that allow for seeing and navigating through them. Get to know what a place looks like before you get there.
I will just be happy to post my family vacation pics up though like this.
I have been playing around with this for a while (we were able to download it internally more than a week ago and I see it as not only being cool but having great application outside of just family vaction photo sharing. Think of all the business maps of campus facilities or building layouts that could have photsynth components that allow for seeing and navigating through them. Get to know what a place looks like before you get there.
I will just be happy to post my family vacation pics up though like this.
@27. Hey, I’d love to try it. Unfortunately MS thinks the world is only made up of Windows and IE users.
@27. Hey, I’d love to try it. Unfortunately MS thinks the world is only made up of Windows and IE users.
@27. Hey, I’d love to try it. Unfortunately MS thinks the world is only made up of Windows and IE users.
The product is not even in beta form yet. The product team however is committed to getting this running on multilpe browsers without an OS dependency. An active X release for pre-beta was an easy no brainer that allows more than 90 of home computer users an opportunity to try the technology while they further develop it and work on cross browser rendering. To be fair even Google does the same thing with their client based apps like Google desktop, etc. They first come out with a Windows version and then maybe come out with another version. I have been pestering them about versions of deskyop and some other apps for my Ubuntu liux box that I use for cross browser testing on web stuff for awhile and am still waiting) Moving toward cross browser/OS is something many the teams at MSFT seem to be working on so with them publicly stating that is where they are going I believe they are and you should be able to try it.
The product is not even in beta form yet. The product team however is committed to getting this running on multilpe browsers without an OS dependency. An active X release for pre-beta was an easy no brainer that allows more than 90 of home computer users an opportunity to try the technology while they further develop it and work on cross browser rendering. To be fair even Google does the same thing with their client based apps like Google desktop, etc. They first come out with a Windows version and then maybe come out with another version. I have been pestering them about versions of deskyop and some other apps for my Ubuntu liux box that I use for cross browser testing on web stuff for awhile and am still waiting) Moving toward cross browser/OS is something many the teams at MSFT seem to be working on so with them publicly stating that is where they are going I believe they are and you should be able to try it.
The product is not even in beta form yet. The product team however is committed to getting this running on multilpe browsers without an OS dependency. An active X release for pre-beta was an easy no brainer that allows more than 90 of home computer users an opportunity to try the technology while they further develop it and work on cross browser rendering. To be fair even Google does the same thing with their client based apps like Google desktop, etc. They first come out with a Windows version and then maybe come out with another version. I have been pestering them about versions of deskyop and some other apps for my Ubuntu liux box that I use for cross browser testing on web stuff for awhile and am still waiting) Moving toward cross browser/OS is something many the teams at MSFT seem to be working on so with them publicly stating that is where they are going I believe they are and you should be able to try it.
Not sure if the product will translate into an operational version though. I mean they need to solve lots of problems before coming to it, even if it is promising.
Not sure if the product will translate into an operational version though. I mean they need to solve lots of problems before coming to it, even if it is promising.
Not sure if the product will translate into an operational version though. I mean they need to solve lots of problems before coming to it, even if it is promising.
[...] Just downloaded PhotoSynth after watching Robert’s video on the subject. PhotoSynth stitches hundreds of photos together to build a 3D representation of a place. You can move around inside that space with your mouse and zoom in on individual photos to get a really high res view. I remember seeing something like this a few years back, but it didn’t give you access to the original photos in the way this does. Very, very cool. I can’t wait till you can create your own collections. I don’t care that it takes days of cpu time. [...]
[...] I had an impromptu chat with Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Architect of Microsoft Photosynth — some are calling his and Gary Flake’s presentation the Demo of the Year. Afterwards in the hallway, Blaise listened carefully to my description of Grupthink, asked a couple questions, pondered it a moment, and provided truly thoughtful feedback. Thanks Blaise! On Friday night, we went on the Bubble-free pub crawl — or at least we tried to. There were some last minute scheduling and location changes and we only hooked up with the group at the very end — but that’s where the real fun began. I was of course pleased we were able to make it to two breweries along the way, and the lengthy conversations I had with Stowe Boyd of Blue Whale Labs were invigorating, enlightening, and challenging; some of the best of my week in SF. Lots of food for thought and I look forward to additional conversations with Stowe. [...]
Yep I was way too negative – it is in delta after all. Still thought it was out a while ago tho.
Yep I was way too negative – it is in delta after all. Still thought it was out a while ago tho.
Yep I was way too negative – it is in delta after all. Still thought it was out a while ago tho.
I am amazed that folk don’t see applications… working in humanitarian and development work the potential for Pro Tools to be developed when combined with satellite imagery is huge… think post disaster assessment (in isolated locations) for example… suddenly all those tourist snaps, uploaded online create a potential baseline… globalnomad101
I am amazed that folk don’t see applications… working in humanitarian and development work the potential for Pro Tools to be developed when combined with satellite imagery is huge… think post disaster assessment (in isolated locations) for example… suddenly all those tourist snaps, uploaded online create a potential baseline… globalnomad101
I am amazed that folk don’t see applications… working in humanitarian and development work the potential for Pro Tools to be developed when combined with satellite imagery is huge… think post disaster assessment (in isolated locations) for example… suddenly all those tourist snaps, uploaded online create a potential baseline… globalnomad101
[...] Thanks to Microsoft labs and Photsnyth this possibility is already a reality, though not commercially available. Scoble has posted a video of a demo by Gary Flake at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit, or go direct to demo’s online. Photosynth software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. [...]
[...] Demo of the Year: Photosynth [...]
[...] I’ve just mentioned a post by Robert Scoble, and I mentioned Photosynth a couple of weeks ago. Before I went to Barcelona, I downloaded Scoble’s video showing Photosynth - it was in QuickTime .MOV format and I hadn’t put QuickTime onto the build of Vista I was running. [...]
“How is a proprietary application that only works on Windows and only in Internet Explorer via ActiveX Web 2.0 material?
Comment by Bob Jones”
i use firefox and it works just fine
“How is a proprietary application that only works on Windows and only in Internet Explorer via ActiveX Web 2.0 material?
Comment by Bob Jones”
i use firefox and it works just fine
“How is a proprietary application that only works on Windows and only in Internet Explorer via ActiveX Web 2.0 material?
Comment by Bob Jones”
i use firefox and it works just fine
@Larry:
I think someone’s getting a head start on that:
http://www.disneysynth.org/
Right now as I understand it though there’s a de-facto limit of about 300 pics for it (heresay I admit), so I imagine there are some eventual limits, but I think the “mosiac” part could be implemented in a lot of ways. Either way its a great way to get both a “broader” AND “more detailed” picture of something.
@Larry:
I think someone’s getting a head start on that:
http://www.disneysynth.org/
Right now as I understand it though there’s a de-facto limit of about 300 pics for it (heresay I admit), so I imagine there are some eventual limits, but I think the “mosiac” part could be implemented in a lot of ways. Either way its a great way to get both a “broader” AND “more detailed” picture of something.
@Larry:
I think someone’s getting a head start on that:
http://www.disneysynth.org/
Right now as I understand it though there’s a de-facto limit of about 300 pics for it (heresay I admit), so I imagine there are some eventual limits, but I think the “mosiac” part could be implemented in a lot of ways. Either way its a great way to get both a “broader” AND “more detailed” picture of something.
[...] been playing with Photosynth since the first demo was available on the web; it’s a very cool visualisation project from Microsoft Live Labs (info here) and it’s [...]